90 Leaven Quotes
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Famous Leaven Quotes
God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat. — Carmen McRae
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. — O. Henry
Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it. — Walter Kirn
Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness. — Rabbi Akiva
Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising. — Bert Greene
God gives us the ingredients for our daily bread, but he expects us to do the baking! — Chip Ingram
Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. — Seneca
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. — M. F. K. Fisher
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. — Yiddish Proverbs
There is a savor of life and immortality in substantial fare. Like balloons, we are nothing till filled. — Herman Melville
Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. — Henry Ford
If you have two loaves of bread, keep one to nourish the body, but sell the other to buy hyacinths for the soul. — Herodotus
Nothing like a little judicious levity. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Short Leaven Quotes
- The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society. — Pope Francis
- The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led. — Spencer W. Kimball
- Good lies need a leavening of truth to make them palatable. — William Mcilvanney
- If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone. — George Will
- The laity are called to become a leaven of Christian living within society. — Pope Francis
- Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass. — Clive Barker
- Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. — Robert Browning
- A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society. — Mahatma Gandhi
- Love's the little leaven that works the whole world glad. — Anne Reeve Aldrich
- Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization. — Elizabeth Janeway
Leaven Quotes
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. — Stephen Covey
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly. — Os Guinness
[Jews are] murderers of the Lord, assassins of the prophets, rebels against God, God haters,... advocates of the devil, race of vipers, slanderers, calumniators, dark-minded people, leaven of the Pharisees, sanhedrin of demons, sinners, wicked men, stoners, and haters of righteousness. — Sayings
He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed in the Churches, and set upon the Altars, which daily supplies Heavenly Food to the faithful. — Peter Chrysologus
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement. — Edward Dahlberg
Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever. — William Wordsworth
Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service. — Joseph Alleine
One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits. — Wallace Stevens
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away. — Hartley Coleridge
If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness. — Ludwig Borne
Baking Bread Quotes
I think baking is very rewarding, and if you follow a good recipe, you will get success. — Mary Berry
Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes. — Eliza Acton
Few people know this about me, but I love baking pies. — Hilary Swank
The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex? — Julia Child
Baking is how you start kids at cooking in the kitchen. — Sandra Lee
For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. — Kahlil Gibran
I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner. — Rick Bass
We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it. — Jose Marti
Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread. — Ion Tiriac
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More Leaven Quotes
Is life worth living? Yes, so long as there is wrong to right. So long as faith with freedom reigns and loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains to leaven lowly lives; While there is only one untrodden tract for intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still. — Alfred Austin
Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all creatures and pass on to them the gifts of salvation...Let yourselves be guided by the Holy Spirit to be the leaven of new life, salt of the earth and light of the world. — Pope Benedict XVI
Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow. — Dorothy L. Sayers
A pie dough comes together exactly like a biscuit only there is very, very little liquid and no leavening involved. Other than that, the same rules apply. My best advice: handle the dough as little as possible. — Sayings
When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence. — Evan Dando
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space. — Hans Hofmann
Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn. — Emma Goldman
I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are. — Irwin Kula
How do we receive the highest mystery of Divine love to us ? the mystery of the Christian faith? With our mind, heart and life; with our free will? Are all the three powers of our souls penetrated by holy faith, as were the souls of the saints? The kingdom of heaven 'is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till the whole was leavened' (Lk. 13:21). The three measures are the three powers of the soul. — John of Kronstadt
Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul with expansions of light, shaping new heights and new depths,and, at your stir of assent,spreading the mountains with flame, filling the hollows with Heaven. — Jessica Powers
Either these unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known. — Dwight L. Moody
Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance, fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hell; Strength without hands to smite; Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death. — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong. — Desmond Tutu
Persistently leavening public opinion, in a grossly superstitious age, with the theological doctrine of popular preachers, that woman is a sex of superior wickedness and inferior mentality, could have but one general result throughout Christendom. — Ellen Battelle Dietrick
When I hear the president of the United States in a great little rhetorical flourish talk about the leavening hand of the government, everybody knows that leavening hand is attached to the long arm of the Internal Revenue Service. And no one mistakes the Internal Revenue Service with something called liberty. — Sean Hannity
Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us. — Sarah Josepha Hale
Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit. — Sarah Josepha Hale
Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible. — Henry David Thoreau
Your friends and your family, if you're close to them, they won't let you get too far from who you were or from who you are. And so I love staying close to people who've always known me. That's probably the best leavening that you could possibly have. — Condoleezza Rice
It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump. — Henry David Thoreau
To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Love life's weariness leavens. — Henri Cazalis
The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more than a remnant of the old leaven of slavery. It is necessarily destructive of refined love; for how can a man continue to regard as his type of the ideal a being whom he has, be denying an equality of privilege with himself, degraded to something below himself? — Herbert Spencer
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